Strong's Hebrew · H259
H259 ʼechâd
אֶחָד
ekh-awd'
one
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ʼechâd appears 951 times in Scripture, including Genesis 1:5 and Genesis 1:9. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
In the King James Version
a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Derivation
a numeral from H258 (אָחַד);
Appears 951 times in Scripture
“God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.”
“In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.”
“So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.”
“And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.”
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.”
“Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...””
“And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.”
“The name of the first river is the Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.”
“And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
